NTFS boot disk with mirroring

[CaptKirk]

Hi all,
Is there a NTFS boot disk that will let me copy the file services.exe from a: to c:\winnt\system32 ? That file got deleted. The 2 drives are mirrored and it seems the popular boot disks will not work with mirroring. I am not sure how to break the mirror and do not want to make things worse.
I have an HP Proliant ML370 server with Windows 2000 Server installed.
Is there a NTFS boot disk that will work with the mirror? After many hours of searching I cannot find one.

Thanks,
CaptKirk

 

[CaptKirk]

Follow up. It is an HP Proliant ML330 server with mirroring. I just need to copy the file back to where it belongs.
Thanks,
CaptKirk

 

[umbletech]

try erd commander 2005 - from wininternals. Used to be a trial on their site. It boots like xp setup - you can press f6 stick in a floppy with your raid card driver and you should be golden.

 

[karlisi]

Have you tried boot disk? If this is hardware mirror, boot disk will work, because for operation system hardware mirror seems like simple disk.

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Karlis
ECDL; MCSA

 

[CaptKirk]

Hi all,
First, Commander 2005 is expensive and second, I believe this is a software mirroring situation. That is why the boot disks do not work. I must have tried 4 or 5 different ones including the 4 floppies from the server CD. Nothing recognized the disk controller.
HP documentation, on their CD, on mirroring for the ML330 goes like this. You can shut down, remove a mirrored drive, boot up and use <F2> to accept failed drives when asked. Then shut down, replace the missing drive with a new one, start up, mirroring will begin immediately. If it does not then you can run their configuration utility file.
I got it fixed by removing primary drive 0, making it a slave in an XP box using NTFS, copying the file, services.exe, to system32, replacing the drive and IT WORKED. I believe drive 0 mirrors to drive 1, so I used drive 0 to make the change.
NOTE: The old services.exe was size 0 because it did not copy correctly with the boot disk I make.
I don't recommend this procedure as it may not always work. Perhaps I was just lucky. This was a "last resort". I did not want to have to reinstall everything.

Thanks for the helpful hints,
Captkirk

 

[Seaspray0]

So... the file is fixed on disk 0, but what about disk 1?

Start, Help. You'll be surprised what's there. A+/MCP/MCSE/MCDBA

 

[CaptKirk]

Not sure, I thought drive 1 would get mirrored from drive 0, if a change took place. Should I copy the file to drive 1 as well? I really don't know. Anybody out there know the answer?
Thanks, Ken